Paul Houston, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry in Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named a winner of the 2001 Herbert A. Broida Prize by the American Physical Society (APS).
The $5,000 prize, which Houston shares with David W. Chandler of Sandia National Laboratory, recognizes outstanding experimental advancements in the fields of atomic and molecular spectroscopy or chemical physics.
Houston recently stepped down after four years as chair of the chemistry and chemical biology department. He received his B.S. from Yale University in 1969 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. He joined the Cornell faculty following postdoctoral work at the University of California-Berkeley.
He is a member of the Cornell Center for Materials Research and the Field of Applied Physics. He served as chair of the APS Division of Laser Physics from 1997 to 1998 and has authored or co-authored about 130 publications and a textbook on chemical kinetics.
His current research projects include product imaging of ozone photodissociation and combustion processes and probing molecular materials at the spatial and temporal limits.
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